Compound hydroxycitrate (HCA) can dissolve calcium oxalate crystals, the most common part of human kidney stones. The finding is expected to lead to new treatment. Kidney stones are hard mineral ...

The number of people suffering with kidney stones is becoming more prevalent, researchers and doctors say, attributing those increases to changes to diet and chronic dehydration. Kidney stones are a ...

Chronic kidney disease can quietly reshape a life long before the first lab test comes back abnormal. More than 700 million ...

In a recent review published in the journal Nature Reviews Urology, researchers explore the impacts of anthropogenic climatic change on urological diseases and the carbon footprint of urological ...

Led by Professor Takaaki Abe at Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, the team discovered that a medicine usually ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Areas vulnerable to the environmental and community-level effects of climate change may also be susceptible to ...

If you’ve ever experienced a kidney stone, you know it’s a pain so intense that many compare it to childbirth. If you haven’t, trust me — you want to keep it that way. These tiny crystalline ...

Climate change isn’t just altering weather patterns; it’s reshaping disease. Among its most dangerous consequences is the impact on people suffering from chronic kidney disease (CKD). The combination ...

One moment you're fine, but the next you're doubled over with a sharp, stabbing pain radiating from your back to your abdomen. It goes away, but then it returns just as searing. Is it what you ate, ...

Climate change is driving more extreme heat and more air pollution from wildfires, each of which put human health at risk. Now, new research funded by the federal Agency for Healthcare Research and ...

Nine out of 10 people with chronic kidney disease only find out when it progresses to later stages. Here’s what we know about its risk factors—and why there's new reason to hope for more effective ...